Donald Trump wants bans on Muslims entering US

[HarryPotterFan]

This is hilarious, people in the UK "taking the piss out of Trump" http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/trump-facts#.md1oolMEP

[doggie]

2 hours ago, AnywhereButHere said: He may just staple one to his head when the current hairpiece dies off. 

And yeah, when Paul Ryan and Dick Cheney think you've gone too far...

One of my daughters has unfortunately met him and swears his hair is real.  

Really what?[emoji13]

[sawasdee]

An interesting article by an independent journalist I saw yesterday

www.bangkokpost.com/.../terror-is-our-biggest-fear-but-not-our-biggest-th..

She mentions that there have so far this year been 63 school shootings that have on the whole received very little coverage, and also the very large sums being spent on defending against Islamic terrorism, when most terrorism in America is homegrown.

Sorry, can't banish the italics!

[AmazonGrace]

Sometimes I think his hair must be real because he's a billionaire, he could afford  a better hairpiece

29 minutes ago, sawasdee said:

An interesting article by an independent journalist I saw yesterday

www.bangkokpost.com/.../terror-is-our-biggest-fear-but-not-our-biggest-th..

She mentions that there have so far this year been 63 school shootings that have on the whole received very little coverage, and also the very large sums being spent on defending against Islamic terrorism, when most terrorism in America is homegrown.

Sorry, can't banish the italics!

how about all the toddlers who shoot people?

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/14/people-are-getting-shot-by-toddlers-on-a-weekly-basis-this-year/

Man, those toddlers are a real menace on the society. When they call it the terrible two's that's no joke.

[CyborgKin]

Now Trump wants to ban the internet too.  Because radicalisation.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-wants-to-ban-the-internet-will-ask-bill-gates-to-close-it-up-a6764396.html

[PregnantPornStar]

Now Trump wants to ban the internet too.  Because radicalisation.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-wants-to-ban-the-internet-will-ask-bill-gates-to-close-it-up-a6764396.html

I think he means to shut down access in certain areas? Places people are radicalizing FROM. So, like, cutting access to social media from ISIS controlled areas, etc.....

[Jeebusismycopilot]

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He said that he would “see Bill Gates” so that he could look into “closing it up”

Yes, because Bill Gates is the keeper of the internet. 

 

Oh wait, I see how The Great Hairy Pumpkin sees things "His name is Gates, he works with computers. He has the GATES to the interwebs!" 

He can't just go in and steamroll over things. Does he realize that being President doesn't mean he just gets what he wants because he's rich. 

[louisa05]

12 hours ago, GiggleOfGirls said:

So, earlier today, the White House press secretary came out and said that Trump's statement about Muslims would disqualify him from being president. Does that statement actually carry any weight at all? 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/08/politics/donald-trump-josh-earnest-disqualified-president-muslims/index.html

No. It is just a turn of phrase, so to speak. A strong way of saying that the statement was disgusting and uncalled for. 

There are only three constitutional requirements for being president: natural born citizen, at least 35 years old, and a U.S. resident for 14 years. 

Side note: the A Beka government text book I taught out of at Christian school (the edition was dated around 1982) added requirements that it claimed all Americans understood and expected. Those were: male, Protestant Christian, and happily married with two or more children.  

 

 

[PennySycamore]

16 minutes ago, louisa05 said:

No. It is just a turn of phrase, so to speak. A strong way of saying that the statement was disgusting and uncalled for. 

There are only three constitutional requirements for being president: natural born citizen, at least 35 years old, and a U.S. resident for 14 years. 

Side note: the A Beka government text book I taught out of at Christian school (the edition was dated around 1982) added requirements that it claimed all Americans understood and expected. Those were: male, Protestant Christian, and happily married with two or more children.  

 

 

WHAT???

[samurai_sarah]

4 hours ago, PregnantPornStar said:

I think he means to shut down access in certain areas? Places people are radicalizing FROM. So, like, cutting access to social media from ISIS controlled areas, etc.....

In that case, Trump cannot be very internet-savvy. It is extremely easy to obtain IP addresses that fake one's location. MTV (US) used to block me from watching shows, because I have a UK IP address. It wasn't very difficult to find means to fake my IP address. And I only wanted to watch "Jersey Shore", not create/maintain an international terror network. So, this idea might have worked for Trump in the days of telegrams, but with the internet? Yeah...no, if I can do it anyone can.

[louisa05]

8 minutes ago, PennySycamore said:

WHAT???

Yep. Seriously. 

I got in trouble every year for explaining to the kids that not every president in history had met those rules including some who were unmarried (Buchanan never married, a few others including Jefferson were widowed by the time they were president), not all had the required number of children (including the sitting president at the time I was teaching there and Washington who never had biological children), JFK was Catholic and happy marriages are not all that common in the White House. Even some that were by all accounts happy were not particularly happy while in the White House (Harry and Bess Truman for example). 

[HarryPotterFan]

12 minutes ago, louisa05 said:

Yep. Seriously. 

I got in trouble every year for explaining to the kids that not every president in history had met those rules including some who were unmarried (Buchanan never married, a few others including Jefferson were widowed by the time they were president), not all had the required number of children (including the sitting president at the time I was teaching there and Washington who never had biological children), JFK was Catholic and happy marriages are not all that common in the White House. Even some that were by all accounts happy were not particularly happy while in the White House (Harry and Bess Truman for example). 

That still seems like what a lot of people expect/want though. Maybe not Protestant, but Christian in some sense. Candidates love to play up family values/their children as well. And we have yet to have a female president, and you can bet there are many people who think a woman can't be president or would start a war because she's PMSing.

[Ali]

39 minutes ago, louisa05 said:

No. It is just a turn of phrase, so to speak. A strong way of saying that the statement was disgusting and uncalled for. 

There are only three constitutional requirements for being president: natural born citizen, at least 35 years old, and a U.S. resident for 14 years. 

Side note: the A Beka government text book I taught out of at Christian school (the edition was dated around 1982) added requirements that it claimed all Americans understood and expected. Those were: male, Protestant Christian, and happily married with two or more children.  

 

 

Wow. 

[HarryPotterFan]

8 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Sometimes I think his hair must be real because he's a billionaire, he could afford  a better hairpiece

how about all the toddlers who shoot people?

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/14/people-are-getting-shot-by-toddlers-on-a-weekly-basis-this-year/

Man, those toddlers are a real menace on the society. When they call it the terrible two's that's no joke.

People really need to pass a common sense test before getting a gun. Kind of like you need a learners permit to learn to drive. If you are too stupid to understand not to leave guns lying around where toddlers can get their hands on them, you don't get a gun.

[PregnantPornStar]

23 minutes ago, samurai_sarah said:

In that case, Trump cannot be very internet-savvy. It is extremely easy to obtain IP addresses that fake one's location. MTV (US) used to block me from watching shows, because I have a UK IP address. It wasn't very difficult to find means to fake my IP address. And I only wanted to watch "Jersey Shore", not create/maintain an international terror network. So, this idea might have worked for Trump in the days of telegrams, but with the internet? Yeah...no, if I can do it anyone can.

Right, but I don't think he is suggesting he wants to take "the internets" away from "us".  Probably why he figured he would reach out to Bill Gates.  

[Catey]

I am just going to go out on a limb and call it.

 

The whole Trump fiasco will implode prior to Dec/25/15.

 

Merry Christmas.

 

Even the people that I consider to be full on batshit crazy are leaping over each other to admonish him and distance themselves from his ramblings.

So I just do not see him getting the Conservative nomination, he will end up either rage quitting or he will run as a Independent candidate and a very small group of wildly insane people following his lead while the rest of the right goes back to making sure that Hilary does not win.

I see It ending with him in a Jonestown type encampment with high grade linens while he rambles on to those crazy enough to still be there to listen.

 

 

 

[samurai_sarah]

2 minutes ago, PregnantPornStar said:

Right, but I don't think he is suggesting he wants to take "the internets" away from "us".  Probably why he figured he would reach out to Bill Gates.  

*sigh* Trump really doesn't understand how the interwebz works, does he? I'm fairly sure Anonymous is already peeing its collective pants, laughing at Trump reaching out to Gates, to police the web.

[louisa05]

11 minutes ago, HarryPotterFan said:

That still seems like what a lot of people expect/want though. Maybe not Protestant, but Christian in some sense. Candidates love to play up family values/their children as well. And we have yet to have a female president, and you can bet there are many people who think a woman can't be president or would start a war because she's PMSing.

I don't completely disagree. But historically, we have not always had presidents meeting those requirements which the book falsely claimed we had. Clinton was president at the time and only has one child. 

I also got in really big trouble when a colleague defended that pile of crap as being incredibly accurate and important in the spring of 2000 and I said that it was a good thing, then, that Laura Bush's one and only pregnancy was twins. BTW, five presidents had no children. 

 

 

[Mecca]

5 hours ago, CyborgKin said:

Now Trump wants to ban the internet too.  Because radicalisation.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-wants-to-ban-the-internet-will-ask-bill-gates-to-close-it-up-a6764396.html

Oh great! If Donald wins the presidency, he will create a new cabinet position and call it "Director of the Internets."  

Is it just me or does Donald sound like a caveman most of the time when he speaks? All he does is ramble off incoherant sentences one day and then spends the next day trying to explain what he meant. When he tries to explain what he meant, he still rambles on and on and repeats himself over and over. I would hate to be Trump's campaign manager. What a nightmare job. 

[sawasdee]

1 hour ago, louisa05 said:

No. It is just a turn of phrase, so to speak. A strong way of saying that the statement was disgusting and uncalled for. 

There are only three constitutional requirements for being president: natural born citizen, at least 35 years old, and a U.S. resident for 14 years. 

Side note: the A Beka government text book I taught out of at Christian school (the edition was dated around 1982) added requirements that it claimed all Americans understood and expected. Those were: male, Protestant Christian, and happily married with two or more children.  

 

 

I still need the WTF button......please, admins is there any way?

[bashfulpixie]

1 hour ago, louisa05 said:

No. It is just a turn of phrase, so to speak. A strong way of saying that the statement was disgusting and uncalled for. 

There are only three constitutional requirements for being president: natural born citizen, at least 35 years old, and a U.S. resident for 14 years. 

Side note: the A Beka government text book I taught out of at Christian school (the edition was dated around 1982) added requirements that it claimed all Americans understood and expected. Those were: male, Protestant Christian, and happily married with two or more children.  

 

 

That's not at all surprising.  I remember my grandma telling me about how it was such a HUGE thing when Kennedy got elected being Catholic. 

[sawasdee]

5 minutes ago, bashfulpixie said:

That's not at all surprising.  I remember my grandma telling me about how it was such a HUGE thing when Kennedy got elected being Catholic. 

I was attending a Catholic school in the UK when Kennedy was elected - and the fact that he was Catholic was MASSIVE! When he was assassinated, I wrote the Mass Card from our school that was sent to the American Embassy - we felt it as a personal loss when he died.

[bashfulpixie]

15 minutes ago, sawasdee said:

I was attending a Catholic school in the UK when Kennedy was elected - and the fact that he was Catholic was MASSIVE! When he was assassinated, I wrote the Mass Card from our school that was sent to the American Embassy - we felt it as a personal loss when he died.

My parents were both really young when it happened, and both come from very Catholic families.  My dad's older sister remembered getting home from school to find her mom crying while watching the news.

[HerNameIsBuffy]

47 minutes ago, Catey said:

I am just going to go out on a limb and call it.

 

The whole Trump fiasco will implode prior to Dec/25/15.

 

Merry Christmas.

 

I'm still expecting an announcement that this was all a huge prank leading up to Ashton Kutcher reviving Punk'd.  Would be sweet to see all his supporters try to explain why they were so behind a deliberately absurdest candidate.  

 

[Whoosh]

14 minutes ago, HerNameIsBuffy said:

I'm still expecting an announcement that this was all a huge prank leading up to Ashton Kutcher reviving Punk'd.  Would be sweet to see all his supporters try to explain why they were so behind a deliberately absurdest candidate.  

 

I am psychic and I can say definitively that if this were to occur, his supporters would let you know exactly why it was 100%, entirely, without a shadow of a doubt, Obama's fault.  Trust me - my psychic predictions are never wrong.